Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography - Softcover

 
9780253019622: Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography
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ISBN 10: 0253019621 ISBN 13: 9780253019622
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience, readers, and listeners. With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.

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About the Author

Andreas Kilcher is a professor at ETH Zurich and author of The Linguistic Theory of Kabbalah as an Aesthetical Paradigm and Dictionary of German-Jewish Literature.

Gabriella Safran is the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies at Stanford University and author of Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253019621
ISBN 13 
9780253019622
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
422
Editor
Safran Gabriella, Kilcher Andreas

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